goldenrod
asters
Working on a large painting takes much time. I'm on my feet six or seven hours of the day when I paint. And often I paint on the same large work until I see it start to move--some days out from the start-- or until the tone up-lifts, or until something else starts stirring.
I simply pause sometimes: a small color study or two at my drawing table can remind me that there is a middle and end to image-making. Then I return to the large painting and usually the path ahead in it appears clearer, the time ahead less clumped to the past days.
The two small studies above are pastel and gouache on paper. Each study is stylized, individuated, stilled. Actually, asters and goldenrod are group-dwellers: many, many, blooms are on each clump and many clumps abide in broad patches in the fields.
I simply pause sometimes: a small color study or two at my drawing table can remind me that there is a middle and end to image-making. Then I return to the large painting and usually the path ahead in it appears clearer, the time ahead less clumped to the past days.
The two small studies above are pastel and gouache on paper. Each study is stylized, individuated, stilled. Actually, asters and goldenrod are group-dwellers: many, many, blooms are on each clump and many clumps abide in broad patches in the fields.
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